Improvement in shoe



Jivrrn ALEXANDER KLINGER, OF CALIFORNIA, MISSOURI.

lIVIPROVENlENT IN SHE=FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of LettersPatent No. 123,405, dated February 6, 1872.

Speciiication describing an Improvement in Shoe-Fastener, invented by ALEXANDER KLINGER, of California, in the county of Moniteau and State or' Missouri.

My invention aims at providing for shoes and gaiters a hook attachment to receive the latchet or lacing-string, which is so applied to the shoe or gaiter and secured to a metal plate as to avoid certain objections to other hook attachments, and attain advantages highly desirable in the manufacture of shoes.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents atop or plan view oi' a shoe with the hooks and latchet applied thereto according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of Fig. l taken on the line .fr fr.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate correspondin g parts.

A represents the shoe; B, the hooks; and C, the la-tchet or string. The hook consists of two pieces, the hook d and the plate e,- the latter being the means by which it is fastened to the leather ofthe shoe. The two parts d and c are fastened together by riveting, after the shank of the hook has been passed through the leather, as seen in Fig. 2. The outer end ofthe plate may then be secured to the leather/by a rivet, as seen in the drawing. This rivet keeps the hook in its proper position when the string is not fastened, but is not deemed indispensable7 as the string or latchet, when the string is adjusted to the hooks, Will be drawn so as to stand horizontal, as seen in Fig. l. The latchet is passed through the leather at the bottom of the slit, as seen at f, and then drawn into the hooks as represented. The part cl is round Wire, and the plate e is thin sheet-metal.

Thus constructed and applied the device d e retains itself in place Without aid of any other means, and the leather is punctured in but one place, (Which is not done byla tlat or out ting-blade.) The cheapness of such attachment, the absence of all liability to injure the shoe to which it is applied, and its capability of retaining itself in place, recommend it above others heretofore used or known.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The device consisting of the plate e and hook d, constructed and applied to the shoe A, as shown and described.

ALEXANDER KLINGER.

Witnesses SAML. MEssERLY, THOMAS LILLY. 

